Sentences with phrase «radiation damage formation»

The EDDE team enjoyed this opportunity to communicate the Center's mission: Gain a better understanding of radiation damage formation and evolution in its early stages in order to design materials that can intrinsically recover from the damaged state.

Not exact matches

They discovered that the chemicals and radiation used to kill tumor cells damage the stem cell reservoir in the hippocampus and nearly halt the formation of new neurons in both children and adults.

Unlike chemotherapy and radiation — which indiscriminately damage cells and tissues, healthy or otherwise — the CD45 - targeting antibodies leave the thymus and the bone marrow, environments critical to the formation of T cells and innate immune cells, unharmed.

A group of researchers at Osaka University found that if DNA damage response (DDR) does not work when DNA is damaged by radiation, proteins which should be removed remain instead, and a loss of genetic information can be incited, which, when repaired incorrectly, will lead to the tumor formation.

This group's achievement shows the possibility to clarify the mechanism of human tumor formation, especially the molecular mechanism responsible for in the initial stage of cell cancerization due to DNA damaged by radiation in the initial stage, by using the model of budding yeast, a primitive eukaryote.

«We're interested in the radiation damage case in particular, but other applications might include studying low - temperature phase change materials, or real - time monitoring of oxide layer formation on steel alloys,» he said.

With a better understanding of void formation in hand, scientists can work on developing composite materials that better resist the damaging effects of radiation.

Beta - carotene not only has a strong photo - protective action that helps prevent the damage caused by ultra violet radiation, but it also promote the natural formation of collagen.